{"id":3074,"date":"2008-04-09T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/barnaby-challenges-sanchez-for-dnc-position\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T17:47:00","slug":"barnaby-challenges-sanchez-for-dnc-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/barnaby-challenges-sanchez-for-dnc-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnaby challenges Sanchez for DNC position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R_0BcVvbbLI\/AAAAAAAAFbA\/DIxVAdsOkX0\/s1600-h\/Barnaby,+Bruce.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R_0BcVvbbLI\/AAAAAAAAFbA\/DIxVAdsOkX0\/s200\/Barnaby,+Bruce.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187303932184718514\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Democrat Bruce Barnaby is challenging former Speaker of the House Raymond Sanchez later this month for the position of Democratic national committeeman for <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Barnaby, a longtime volunteer with the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmdemocrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Party<\/a>, said in a letter sent Friday to the party\u2019s state central committee members that he will represent New Mexico Democrats on a number of issues that come before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic National Committee<\/a>, including its 50-state strategy, which he supports, and discussion of a national presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI will keep Democrats in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> informed as these issues move forward, and I will seek advice and suggestions in open forums and meetings,\u201d Barnaby wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Barnaby currently chairs the party\u2019s state rules committee and has been a member of that committee since 2005. He is a precinct and ward chair in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Bernalillo<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> and a volunteer at the state and county headquarters. He attended his first state convention in 1968.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Democrats in each state elect a national committeeman and national committeewoman to the DNC. <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s committeewoman, Mary Gail Gwaltney, is being challenged this year by State Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=191&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Helen Garcia<\/a>, D-Las Cruces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Democrats will pick the committeeman and committeewoman at the statewide presidential delegate convention on April 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Bruce Barnaby is challenging former Speaker of the House Raymond Sanchez later this month for the position of Democratic national committeeman for New Mexico. Barnaby, a longtime volunteer with the state Democratic Party, said in a letter sent Friday to the party\u2019s state central committee members that he will represent New Mexico Democrats on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}